Have you tried switching it off and on again?

I just wanted to share this insightful comment on Reddit.

I've seen HelpDesk technicians at work asking,

"Have you tried switching it off and on again?"

several times a day, thus I bursted into laugher.

Please feel free to share if you think of any others 😉

Comments

[Joshua Gilless]

It can get even worse. There was a time at work where we were struggling to get people to all use the same npm version. One of the developers put this in the scripts section of our package.json:

"relock": "rm -rf node_modules/ && rm package-lock.json && npm i"


[Sung M. Kim]

It sounds like that's the problem npm ci tries to solve

Kushan Joshi

Aug 13

Related to the original response, npm 6 now allows you to run
npm ci
Which deletes the node_modules and installs the exact version mentioned in your lock file. This is a great way to reproduce the exact working copy of your node app.

[Joshua Gilless]

Yeah! It mostly is, but the subtle difference was our package-lock.json files were out of sync. We were just having a hard time getting everyone on the same version of npm, so the package-lock.json files generated by npm install were slightly different. npm ci runs based off of package-lock.json

[Sung M. Kim]

Now I see what you means.

While npm ci tries to make library to be consistent across computers,
relock command installs libraries from clean slate.

[Kushan Joshi]

Related to the original response, npm 6 now allows you to run
npm ci
Which deletes the node_modules and installs the exact version mentioned in your lock file. This is a great way to reproduce the exact working copy of your node app.

[Sung M. Kim]

Thanks for the tip Kushan.

Even this morning, I've deleted node_modules folder manually...

npm ci seems like a great addition to the CLI. 👍

[Andrew Lucker]

Today it took me way too long to remember that most of the internet works on a variant of this principle:

"Try switching it on and off again, then wait several hours."

[Sung M. Kim]

😃 Takes a while for DNS records to propagate.

That's probably the easiest way to let non-technical people to wait just long enough 😉

[Ross Henderson]

Just throwing it out there: my previous job was a Technical Advisor for a Mobile Phone Insurance Company. Statistically, the fix most likely to work was legitimately turning it off and on again!

[Sung M. Kim]

Seems like data don't lie

😛

[Zoryana Vakh]

Without doubt, It works!) That's what experience says